Obama Unveils 2014 Budget Proposal
Published April 10, 2013
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The budget battle on Capitol Hill heated up Wednesday as
President Barack Obama released his budget for fiscal 2014 that aims to find
middle ground to progress long-stalled budget negations.
The president's budget includes 215 proposals to cut
spending, will raise $680 billion in new tax revenues and reduce future
deficits by $600 billion over 10 years. The White House says the president's
plan includes $1.8 trillion in deficit reduction, replacing the $1.2 trillion
in automatic spending cuts poised to take effect over the next 10 years.
The budget aims to find middle ground between the dueling
parties by including reductions
to popular entitlements, which doesn’t sit well with Democrats, as well as
Republican-loathed tax increases.
"My budget will reduce our deficits by nearly another
2-trillion dollars so that, all told, we will have surpassed the goal of
4-trillion dollars in deficit reduction that independent economists believe we
need to stabilize our finances," the president said in the Rose Garden on
Wednesday.
Medicare and Social Security face cuts under the president’s
budget, which has drawn criticism from members of his own party…
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